They change the performance every year, which can be the toughest part of the show.

“Everyone always loves the songs. It’s difficult to drop some songs, but we want to give people something new,” Hamilton said.

Besides the new songs, there will also be a surprise guest performer. She politely declined to reveal who the surprise might be … it would ruin the surprise.

Their Christmas gift

The concert began almost three decades ago as a community gift to spotlight the first Christmas album Vavra and Hamilton produced, “Christmas in Vail.” That album included Hamilton’s first original holiday song, “The Christmas Infant.”

They’ve since added two more albums, “You Are My Christmas,” featuring many more Hamilton original compositions, and their latest, “Through Angels’ Eyes,” featuring an original track of the same name.

All the CDs will be on sale at the Beaver Creek Chapel before and after the concert.

“It’s always a beautiful evening where you can sit quietly and absorb and reflect on the meaning of the season. The chapel is beautifully decorated with greenery and poinsettias, with subdued lighting,” Tsu Wolin-Brown, of the Vail Valley Salvation Army, said.